Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box and over 400,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn more

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
More Buying Choices
38 used & new from £3.50
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book
Start reading Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box [Paperback]

The Arbinger Institute (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.23 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £3.76 (38%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.
Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, September 9? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
29 new from £3.64 9 used from £3.50

Formats

 Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition £5.92   -- --
Hardcover --   -- £8.69
Paperback £6.23   £3.64 £3.50
Audio, CD, Audiobook £21.61   £9.24 £13.58
Audio Download, Unabridged £9.17 or £3.99 with new Audible.co.uk membership

Frequently Bought Together

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box + The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life) + Taming Your Gremlin Revised: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
Price For All Three: £25.78

Show availability and delivery details

Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life)

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life)

by The Arbinger Institute
4.9 out of 5 stars (7)  £14.44
Taming Your Gremlin Revised: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

Taming Your Gremlin Revised: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

by Richard David Carson
4.6 out of 5 stars (7)  £5.11
The Anatomy of Peace: How to Resolve the Heart of Conflict

The Anatomy of Peace: How to Resolve the Heart of Conflict

by Arbinger Institute
£6.99
Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life

Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life

by Kevin Cashman
5.0 out of 5 stars (4)  £12.59
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

by Nancy Kline
4.7 out of 5 stars (27)  £6.05
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (3 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141030062
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141030067
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

  • See Complete Table of Contents

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
     Effective leadership opens new browser window
  www.haygroup.com   -   Transform individual contributors into effective managers!

Product Description

Stephen R. Covey, Author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"Profound...engaging...packed with insight. I couldn't recommend it more
highly"

Product Description

You might think you are a people person. But do you really treat others well? And how can you improve your dealings with those around you? Be prepared to have your world turned upside down and open your eyes to a whole new way of living and working. Through a series of entertaining stories, this astonishing book will show you how most of us are not fulfilling our potential – in our personal lives and at work – because of ‘self-deception’. It will show you how to escape your box of self-deception, and change for the better in a lasting way: * Don’t focus on what others are doing wrong. Do focus on what you can do to help * Don’t worry whether others are helping you. Do worry whether you are helping others * Don’t try to be perfect. Do try to be better. By following this book’s advice, you can deepen your personal happiness, strengthen your relationships, improve your leadership skills, build teamwork – and increase your success in everything you choose to pursue.
See all Product Description
Inside This Book (Learn More)
First Sentence
It was two months ago to the day that I first entered the secluded campus-style headquarters of Zagrum Company to interview for a senior management position. Read the first page
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
Agree with these tags?

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
91% buy the item featured on this page:
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute Paperback 3.8 out of 5 stars (12)
£6.23
Taming Your Gremlin Revised: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
4% buy
Taming Your Gremlin Revised: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way by Richard David Carson Paperback 4.6 out of 5 stars (7)
£5.11
Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork Start the Work That Matters
2% buy
Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork Start the Work That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier Paperback 5.0 out of 5 stars (6)
£4.78
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life)
2% buy
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life) by The Arbinger Institute Hardcover 4.9 out of 5 stars (7)
£14.44
› Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

12 Reviews
5 star:
 (6)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:
 (3)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.8 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Resistance is useless, 14 May 2007
By C. E. Baker (UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box (Paperback)
I first read this book several years ago but the ideas in it have stayed with me and increased in relevance over time. I read it mainly in the hope of finding ways to 'help' other people improve and so was very resistant to the idea that I might be contributing to the problems they were causing me. However, the simplicity, elegance and depth of the concepts rang so true and were so useful to me, in all areas of my life, that I have come back to it time and time again. At the heart of Arbinger work is the concept that we are continually making a choice in our `way of being' - to be responsive and to see others as people, whose needs and desires are just as important as our own, or to be resistant and to see others as objects, whose needs and desires are not as important as out own. Connected to this is the idea of self deception, which you could describe as the assumption that I am not a problem. When I am self-deceived (which, let's face it, is most of the time!) I am creating my own problems, but I am unable to see this, and I resist any attempt to solve these problems even though I say that is what I want. Liberation lies in the continuing efforts to 'get out of the box' and see people and situations without distortion and this book provides many illustrations and tools to help you do this.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like Covey..You'll find this an excellent read, 24 Aug 2000
This review is from: Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the Box (Arbinger Institute) (Hardcover)
The Arbinger Institute's view on how we create (organisational) problems for ourselves and then how we "fix" them, is simple yet profound.

I've read hundreds of management , leadership and personal development books ... This one adopts the number one position - Overnight!

Whether you are struglling to influence your team or organisation to willingly embrace change; or find yourself as a parent with a "difficult" child, then this is for you.

They suggest that we suffer from 3 problems!

1 We create our own problems 2 We are blind to these problems 3 We resist wanting to fix these problems..

The book is a story (therefore any easy read!) of a new guy 6 months into his new company, attending his first review with the boss. He believes that he has done really well since he joined and is anticipating bouquets...

However, his boss (the enlightened one!) has a different view. What unfolds is a home truths session that could be you or I... dealing with the essence of why we create the problems we do with people.

Not until the final pages does the author reveal the solution.

Having read Covey, Senge, Peters etc. I found this a refreshing view of our eternal challenge with people.

Buy it and give your friends a copy!

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The message is right but could be summarised nicely in 5 pages - sparing the reader the pain of the story, 2 Mar 2010
By AK (London) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   
This review is from: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box (Paperback)
As with other books of this 'management self help' genre, there is a nugget of gold included but it unfortunately comes wrapped in tons of substandard pulp style writing.

Starting with the nugget - the insight that we tend to blame others most heavily and not assess ourselves accurately is quite old and well established in psychology. More in depth descriptions can be found in Choices, Values, and Frames - which in essence is a book much more useful than the one here reviewed.

One of the psychological insights that will probably be less liked by quite some readers is that cloaking this nugget into a story helps with both acceptance and sales (as the runaway success of similar works such as The One Minute Manager series and Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life shows).

So instead of a short paper, which would get to the point and convey the no less valid message of 5 pages, a book of ~170 pages is created, where the content is the same but needlessly furnished with a first person narrative of questionable quality and / or appeal. It makes you flip through rather than read it and gives the impression that the insight is as superficial as the writing, which in my opinion it is not. The unfortunate side effect of this approach is that a sizeable fraction of potential readership, which could benefit from this will turn up their noses at it for that very reason and not get 'out of the box'.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to expected standards
Having read all the other adrian mole books this has no surprises. good humour amusing easy to read.
Published 8 months ago by A. R. Hill

1.0 out of 5 stars Pathetic
I cant believe I wasted my time reading such a book. In simple terms, the message is this, dont be quick to judge and be understanding to what the other person might be in. Read more
Published 13 months ago by M. Rehman

5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening
I was recommended this book and I certainly was not disappointed. It is literally like somebody switched the light on and suddenly everything becomes clear. Must read!
Published 15 months ago by Anonymous

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but....
I think the major sticking point for me on this book was the 1st person narrative style. The book describes the induction process of a new executive within a highly successful... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Dr. J. Jones

1.0 out of 5 stars The problem is you
This strange homoerotic tale of a management candidate's discussions with his bosses at the company is some of the most patronising dreck I have ever had the misfortune to read... Read more
Published 24 months ago

5.0 out of 5 stars Getting out of the box
I came across this book by reference to learn the subject area more in depth. I found the track of case studies initially a bit annoying. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2007 by Margit

5.0 out of 5 stars Know Thyself: Are You Self-Deceived?
This book tells of a manager, a CEO, a father, and a 19th century scientist who while searching diligently for their problems "out there" find that the problem is within... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2007 by Keith E. Webb

3.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't what I'd hoped
I bought this book because I thought self-deception can be a big problem and I thought it may have insights. It wasn't the book I was imagining, however. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2006 by P. Dean

5.0 out of 5 stars Great lessons, easy read
Can's say more. One of the very well written books.
Easy flow as a story.
But very insightful lessons! Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2005 by Shree

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject







i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Amazon.co.uk Privacy Statement Amazon.co.uk Delivery Information Amazon.co.uk Returns & Exchanges

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.